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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Liberty bonds nro not being ncccptcd this yenr In pnyment of taxes in Salt Lake county. The Utah county nuthorltles nro attempting at-tempting to put flnvorlng extracts under un-der the prohibition ban. Utnhns will ho expected to purclmso ftbout nineteen million dollars' worth of fourth Liberty loan bonds. The total enrollment of tho Ogdcn public schools up to Saturday night was 512t), nccording to tho reports received re-ceived ut the board of educntlon. A truckload of canned fruit nnd Jelly, ns n contribution from tho women of Ogdcn to tho reconstruction hospital, was delivered nt Eort Douglas ono day lost week. As n courtesy extended by tho board of directors of the Utnh Sto,to Fair association, as-sociation, nil members of tho Grand Army of tho Republic will, bo ndmltted freo to tho exposition. .' Persons now employed. In positions considered non'-cssentlnl by the government govern-ment will bo looked upon ns slnckcrs-, providing tliey refuse to lenvo such positions po-sitions und enter useful work. : Ncnrly n qunrter of a million bushels bush-els of grain In tho Ulntuh nnd Du-chesno Du-chesno region must be hnulcd to tlio mnrket centers beforo snow flies', to prevent loss to the fnrmers. Jnmcs Winchester, 87 yenrs of ngen pioneer of 1810, wns run down nnd so severely Injured by n street enr near his homo nt Salt Lnko thnt ho dledin licur Inter without regaining consciousness. conscious-ness. ' TJint n splendid reponso hns hern mndo to the country's cnll Is shown by the fact thnt 281 Illngbnm citizens nro now In tho military service. A largo percentage of them were volim-tcers. volim-tcers. Fifteen cases of smnllpox have been reported to the city health oiTlcc ut Ogdcn. Two girls with slight enses of smnllpox, who failed to observe tho quarantine law, nro said to have caused tho disease to spread. Reversing Its former attitude- In "respect "re-spect to erection of tho proposed new Pnntnges theater In-Salt Lnko, thu state council of dcfcn80 has formally withdrawn with-drawn Its opposition to tlio construction construc-tion of the new building. Ah n means of co-ordinating tlio activities ac-tivities of tho state council of defense nnd tho Utnh speakers' bureau. Prof. F. W. Reynolds', of tho University of Utnh faculty, tins been appointed n member of tho stuto council. Nick Saltos wns convicted nt Salt Lake of having liquor In his possession. Ho explained to tho court that fho liquor wns Intended for Ijls friejAJi Illiighnm, to which Jhu UMufijH thnt Iris linlijKoliTrfliBBr cost him $100. W For tlio week ended September Hi the production of coal from Utnh mines' amounted to 10.19 enrs, whllo tho output out-put from southern Wyoming collieries' nggregnted 3022 enrs, n gratifying Increase, In-crease, nccording to tlio federal fuel' administration. Thu Amalgamated Sugar factory at, Ilrlghnm City tills season will sllco nnd mnko Into sugur approximately 70,000 tons of boots, nccording to Information In-formation given out recently by Superintendent Super-intendent Hunter, Tho local factory bundled 78,000 tons last year. Rakers huvo been advised by W. W, Armstrong, food administrator for Utah, that one-fourth of tho substitutes substi-tutes required In nny bnkery product may bu rye, with tlio exception that bread containing 10 per cent rye need not contnln nny other substitute. Mnrlno corps recruiting will bo routined ro-utined on October 1. Applicants between be-tween tho uges of 18 and 45 yours will bo uccepted. Sixty per cent of tflie mnrlno corps members nro young men, nnd tho greater portion of thu enlistments enlist-ments will bo taken from this class. Ono of thu most Important nrrests of I. W. W. leaders since tho time of tho fedornl raids In July, 1017, wns mudo nt Salt Lake last week, when Joo Rogers, secrctnry of the local I. AW W, organization, was arrested, charged with distributing seditious handbills. Klmer L. Dewey wns hist week mndo a freo man, tho stuto board of pardons par-dons commuting his sentence, to take effect nt once. DSwoy was convicted nt Salt Lnko on October 27, 1013, of murder In the second degree for tho killing of Sergeant John II, Jolinsto of Wio police force, nnd sentenced l serve 14 years In the state prison. A distinct compliment has been paid tho school of homo economics of tho Utah Agricultural collego by tho federal fed-eral department of labor, Washington, D. C, In tho ndoptlon by tlio department depart-ment of tho plan for tho training of tenchors In tho right care of child life as tho basis for Its' outline of this work In tho Smith-Hughes courses for tho training of teachers. Ono hundred nnd eighty mombers of tho locul painters' and paperhangers' union, left tho Jobs nt Suit Lake on Monday, demanding nn Incrcaso of in cents nn hour for regular work, nnd 25 cents nn hour for scaffold work. Tho wugo scalo for both classes of work has herctoforo been 75 cents an hour, Interest In tllio growing of whlto flint corn In Utnh will recelvo Impetus I through tha efforts of tho food administration admin-istration encouraging growers to compete com-pete for prizes offered for tho bent product nt tho Utah Stuto fair. Dessls F. Terrell of Salt Lako faces :rlal on tho charge of having shot n boy, Ray Cowan, on tho night of Mny 17. Ho claims to havo caught tho youth stealing a rabbit from his premises, prem-ises, and testified thnt he fired low to milko sure of Inflicting only n minor Injury, Tho boy's legs .vero peppered V. ith blrdshnt. t |